"Grace (short story) ""Grace"" is a short story by James Joyce written toward the end of 1905 and published in his 1914 collection ""Dubliners."" The story begins with an unconscious man who has fallen down the stairs in a pub after heavy drinking. A friend of his, Mr. Power, finds him, reveals him to be named Tom Kernan, and takes him home to his wife. Kernan is a salesman who once possessed an easy charm and manner but has since descended into alcoholism. An injury to his tongue sustained during the fall keeps Kernan in bed. Two days later, he"
"a more prominent ""honour grave,"" with a seated portrait statue by American artist Milton Hebald nearby. Nora, whom he had married in 1931, survived him by 10 years. She is buried by his side, as is their son Giorgio, who died in 1976. ""Dubliners"" is a collection of fifteen short stories by Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak and a search for a national identity and purpose was"
"Man"". It was in 1905 that Joyce first attempted to get his famous collection of stories ""Dubliners"" published, and only after many attempts was it published in 1914. Liam O'Flaherty published his first collection, ""Spring Sowing"", in 1924, depicting the harsh life of his native Aran Islands. Daniel Corkery, ""A Munster Twilight"" (1916), was the first of a group of writers from County Cork. Seán Ó Faoláin, whose first collection ""Midsummer Night Madness"", 1932, was another member of this group, as was Frank O'Connor. His first collection was ""Guests of the Nation"", 1931. The work of this ""Cork school"" continued"
"The Dubliners (album) The Dubliners is the eponymous debut live album by the Irish folk band The Dubliners. It was produced by Nathan Joseph and released by Transatlantic Records in 1964. The line-up consisted of Ronnie Drew, Barney McKenna, Luke Kelly and Ciarán Bourke. When Kelly died, the album title was changed to The Dubliners with Luke Kelly by the record company to spur sales of the reissue and underscore the magnitude of Kelly's contribution to the group. The tune labelled ""Swallow's Tail Reel"" is a medley of ""The Swallow Tail Reel"" (O'Neill 536) and ""The High Reel"" (O'Neill 721),"
"The Dubliners The Dubliners were an Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group after its founding member; they subsequently renamed themselves The Dubliners. The line-up saw many changes over their fifty-year career, but the group's success was centred on lead singers Luke Kelly and Ronnie Drew. The band garnered international success with their lively Irish folk songs, traditional street ballads and instrumentals. The band were regulars on the folk scenes in both Dublin and London in the early 1960s, and were signed to the Major Minor label in 1965 after backing from Dominic"
"then to jam-packed sessions in the Embankment, Tallaght. Ciarán Bourke joined the group, followed later by John Sheahan. They renamed themselves The Dubliners at Kelly's suggestion, as he was reading James Joyce's book of short stories, entitled ""Dubliners"", at the time. Kelly was the leading vocalist for the group's eponymous debut album in 1964, which included his rendition of ""The Rocky Road to Dublin"". Barney McKenna later noted that Kelly was the only singer he'd heard sing it to the rhythm it was played on the fiddle. In 1964 Luke Kelly left the group for nearly two years and was"
"of 2018, Seán Cannon is the only former member still in this group, following Eamonn Campbell's death in October 2017. The Dubliners, initially known as ""The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group"", formed in 1962 and made a name for themselves playing regularly in O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin. The change of name came about because of Ronnie Drew's unhappiness with it, together with the fact that Luke Kelly was reading ""Dubliners"" by James Joyce at the time. Founding members were Drew, Kelly, Ciarán Bourke and Barney McKenna. Drew, McKenna and Thomas Whelan had originally teamed up for a fundraising concert and then"
"edited by Thomas Morris, was released in June 2014 on the centenary of the publication of James Joyce's ""Dubliners"". It comprises short fiction from established and emerging writers – including John Kelly, Mary Morrissy, Belinda McKeon and Eimear McBride – and an introduction by Morris. ""Dubliners 100"" won the Journal.ie Best Irish-Published Book Award at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards while Donal Ryan's story for the collection, entitled ""Eveline"", was shortlisted for the Writing.ie Best Short Story Award. It also received positive reviews in ""The Guardian"", ""Irish Times"" and ""The Times Literary Supplement"". The book was mentioned ahead"
"in Joyce's mind. At school he wrote an essay on the character, entitled ""My Favourite Hero"". Joyce told Frank Budgen that he considered Ulysses the only all-round character in literature. He thought about calling his short-story collection ""Dubliners"" (1914) by the name ""Ulysses in Dublin"", but the idea grew from a story written in 1906 to a ""short book"" in 1907, to the vast novel that he began in 1914. The action of the novel takes place from one side of Dublin Bay to the other, opening in Sandycove to the South of the city and closing on Howth Head"
"and makes the painful decision not to leave with him. Nonetheless, her face registers no emotion at all. Like other tales in ""Dubliners"", such as ""Araby"", ""Eveline"" features a circular journey, where a character decides to go back to where their journey began and where the result of their journey is disappointment and reluctance to travel. Eveline ""Eveline"" is a short story by the Irish writer James Joyce. It was first published in 1904 by the journal ""Irish Homestead"" and later featured in his 1914 collection of short stories ""Dubliners"". A young woman, Eveline, of about nineteen years of age"
"hidden divinity either in the form of a personal appearance, or by some deed of power by which its presence may be known."" As a verb the word means ""to display or show forth"" and when used in the passive voice it translates to ""shine forth."" The novel, ""Dubliners"" by James Joyce is a collection of short stories published on June 1914. The short stories capture some of Joyce's most unhappiest moments in life that he connects to the physical place of Dublin. Dublin, to Joyce seemed to him to be the centre of paralysis in which he explains in"
"others; additionally a number of prose works from the same period took the tale as basis or inspiration, including works by W.B. Yeats, Aubrey Thomas de Vere, Alice Milligan, George Sigerson, Samuel Ferguson, Charles Leonard Moore, Fiona Macleod, as well as ballad versions from Scotland. Peadar Ua Laoghaire adapted the work as a closet drama, serialized in the ""Cork Weekly Examiner"" (1900-1). In 1914 Joseph Dunn authored an English translation ""The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge"" based primarily on the Book of Leinster. Cecile O'Rahilly published academic editions/translations of both recensions, ""Táin Bó Cúalnge from the Book of"
"writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker. It is also the location of key and notable works of James Joyce, including ""Ulysses"", which is set in Dublin and includes much topical detail. ""Dubliners"" is a collection of short stories by Joyce about incidents and typical characters of the city during the early 20th century. Other renowned writers include J. M. Synge, Seán O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Maeve Binchy, John Banville and Roddy Doyle. Ireland's biggest libraries and literary museums are found in Dublin, including the National Print Museum of Ireland and National Library"
"The Boarding House ""The Boarding House"" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection ""Dubliners."" Mrs. Mooney, separated from her husband, a butcher who descended into alcoholism, runs a boarding house for working men. Her daughter Polly entertains the boarders by singing and flirting with them. Mrs. Mooney learns that her daughter is having an affair with Mr. Doran, a man in his mid-thirties who has worked in a Catholic wine-merchant’s office for many years. On Sunday nights Polly, Mrs. Mooney's daughter, would sing with the various guests in the boarding house. It is noted that"
"After the Race ""After the Race"" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection ""Dubliners."" As many flashy cars drive toward Dublin, crowds gather and cheer. A race has just finished, and though the French have placed second and third after the German–Belgian team, the local sightseers loudly support them. Jimmy Doyle rides in one of the cars with his wealthy French friend, Charles Ségouin, whom he met while studying at Cambridge. Two other men ride with them as well: Ségouin’s Canadian cousin, André Rivière, and a Hungarian pianist, Villona. Driving back into Dublin, the young"
"world they depicted. Gerald Griffin (1803–1840) was born in Limerick but spent time in England. On returning to Ireland he wrote ""The Collegians"", on which his reputation rests. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) was born in Dublin and lived there for most of his life. He was noted for his mystery novels and Gothic fiction (some of which is based on Irish folklore). Bram Stoker (1847–1912), a writer of similar interests, was born in Dublin but spent much his life in England. He wrote many books but is best known for ""Dracula"", one of the most famous novels in the"
"The Crawlers ""The Crawlers"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. Submitted under the title ""Foundling Home"", it was first published as ""The Crawlers"" in ""Imagination ""magazine, July 1954. The story starts out from the point of view of a crawler constructing one of its curious hives. The crawler seems sentient and to genuinely enjoy building its odd dwelling. The story is set in a small Midwestern town, with references later in the story to mysterious ""pools"" which seem to cause mutations. Certain families in the area have begun to give birth to abnormal children"
"and James Joyce. He is believed to have served as a model for the Little Chandler character in Joyce's short story collection Dubliners. Cousins was significantly influenced by Russell's ability to reconcile mysticism with a pragmatic approach to social reforms and by the teachings of Madame Blavatsky. He had a lifelong interest in the paranormal and acted as reporter in several experiments carried out by William Fletcher Barrett, Professor of physics at Dublin University and one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research. Cousins produced several books of poetry whilst in Ireland as well as acting in the"
"Europe to gather information for the settings of his stories, and also visited Australia again in 1913. His short story ""The Citizen"" was included in ""The Best Short Stories of 1915"", a book compiled by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien. O'Brien selected it and 19 other short stories for the book out of over 2,200 submissions. In 1915, Dwyer published ""Breath of the Jungle"". It was the only collection of short stories that Dwyer published in book form. Most of the stories within it were set in the East Indies. In December 1919, Dwyer divorced his wife and married his American"
"Dublin: Foundation Dublin: Foundation (2004) (also known in North America as The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga or sometimes simply Dublin) is a novel by Edward Rutherfurd first published in 2004 by Century Hutchinson and then by Seal Books and Doubleday Canada. It is a work of historical fiction and centers on a number of families and their descendants in and around the area of Ireland that is now Dublin. It begins in AD 430 with the love affair of a prince (Conall) and the daughter of an Irish chief (Deirdre) from the area of Dubh Linn . It"
"The Three Musketeers (short story) ""The Three Musketeers"" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling which introduces three fictional British soldiers serving in India in the later nineteenth century: the privates Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris. These characters appear in many early Kipling stories. ""The Three Musketeers"" was first published in the ""Civil and Military Gazette"" on 11 March 1887. It appeared in book form in ""Plain Tales from the Hills"" (1888). Narrated by the three privates—mostly Mulvaney, the loquacious Irishman, and Ortheris —""The Three Musketeers"" tells the story of how the three contrive not only to 'protest' (like the junior"
"concludes in AD 1533, with the disappearance of the Staff of Saint Patrick. Historical characters include Saint Patrick, Brian Boru, Strongbow, and King John of England, among others. Dublin: Foundation Dublin: Foundation (2004) (also known in North America as The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga or sometimes simply Dublin) is a novel by Edward Rutherfurd first published in 2004 by Century Hutchinson and then by Seal Books and Doubleday Canada. It is a work of historical fiction and centers on a number of families and their descendants in and around the area of Ireland that is now Dublin. It"
"The Dublin Magazine The Dublin Magazine was an Irish literary journal founded and edited by the poet Seamus O'Sullivan (real name James Sullivan Starkey) and published in Dublin by New Square Publications. Between August 1923 to August 1925 it was published as a monthly, then quarterly from January 1926 to June 1958, ceasing publication on O'Sullivan's death. The cover for the first issue was designed by artist Harry Clarke. The magazine featured fiction, poetry, drama and reviews and contributors included more or less every significant Irish writer of the period, including the playwright Samuel Beckett, the poet Austin Clarke, popular"
"the latter story also owes something to his brother Stanislaus' account of his father at work during a Dublin by-election three years earlier. After being rejected by Symon’s publishers, Joyce sent Dubliners (then comprising only twelve stories) to publisher Grant Richards. It took nearly eight years for Dubliners to get published. Going back and forth with Richards, who initially agreed to publish his work, Joyce revised and omitted many things in Dubliners to reach an agreement. However, Richards objected to too many things and eventually simply refused to publish the book. Ireland has a prominent role in Joyce's writing. Having"
"led them to drop most of these from their repertoire. They resumed performing such songs occasionally towards the end of their career. They have also recorded satirical protest songs against nuclear weapons such as ""The Button Pusher"" and ""Protect and Survive"", feminist songs such as ""Don't Get Married"", and socialist songs such as ""Joe Hill"". On 8 February 2012, The Dubliners received a ""Lifetime Achievement Award"" at the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. The Dubliners The Dubliners were an Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group after its founding member; they subsequently"
"She used this experience in her first literary success in 1991 with the short story, ""Across the Excellent Grass"" which won the Powers Gold Short Story Competition at Listowel Writers’ Week. She won the same competition the following year with ""Bridie’s Wedding"" and was also a prize winner in The Observer/short story competition with ""Teatro La Fenice"". The Dublin Trilogy was published between 1995-2000 as ""The Dancer"", ""The Gambler"" and ""The Gatemaker"" by Marino Books and was republished by New Island in 2006-07. The trilogy covered the story of a Dublin family between the years 1913-1958. After the trilogy came"
"band The Dubliners in a pub in Dublin called The Bailey. It was set to the music of the traditional song ""The Dawning of the Day"" (""Fáinne Geal an Lae""). An Irish-language song with this name (""Fáinne Geal an Lae"") was published by Edward Walsh (1805–1850) in 1847 in ""Irish Popular Songs"", and later translated into English as ""The Dawning of the Day"", published by Patrick Weston Joyce in 1873. Given the similarity in themes and the use of the phrase ""dawning of the day"" in both ""On Raglan Road"" and the traditional tune, it is quite likely that Kavanagh"
"ten years in Trieste (then in Austria-Hungary), where he taught English. In March 1905, Joyce was transferred to the Berlitz School In Trieste, presumably because of threats of spies in Austria. There Nora gave birth to their children, George in 1905 and Lucia in 1907, and Joyce wrote fiction, signing some of his early essays and stories ""Stephen "". The short stories he wrote made up the collection ""Dubliners"" (1914), which took about eight years to be published due to its controversial nature. While waiting on ""Dubliners"" to be published, Joyce reworked the core themes of the novel ""Stephen Hero"""
"Ó Direáin in 1961. These deal largely with his youth in the Irish-speaking Aran Islands. An important contemporary practitioners of the genre, the poetic realist Seán Mac Mathúna (born 1935), has published versions of his stories in both Irish and English. His reputation was confirmed by his collection ""Ding"" (""Wedge""), with its disturbing title story. He was never a prolific writer, and has published little for some years. The short story continues to be a favoured form for writers in Irish, possibly because it lends itself to publication in the two main literary magazines, ""Feasta"" and ""Comhar"". Collections in Irish"
"and give ""The Spires of Oxford"" its place in the forefront of the volume"". Her poem ""The Deserter"" (written in 1916), describing the feelings and fate of a man terrified by the war, is often used in collections of World War I poetry. She continued to write novels and children's fiction. In 1933 ""Knockmaroon"", a reminiscence of her childhood in Dublin in her grandparents' house, and considered her finest book, was published. Winifred Mary Letts Winifred Mary Letts (1882–1972) was an English-born writer who spent most of her life in Ireland. She was known for her novels, plays and poetry."
"The Drifters (novel) The Drifters is a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener, published in 1971 by Random House. The novel follows six young characters from diverse backgrounds and various countries as their paths meet and they travel together through parts of Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Mozambique. The story is told from the perspective of the narrator, George Fairbanks, who is an investment analyst for the fictional company World Mutual Bank in Switzerland. Mr. Fairbanks is connected with nearly every character in some way, and they all seem to open up to him throughout the novel in one"
"the ""Evening Telegraph"". The ""Dublin Evening Mail"" featured in short stories in James Joyce's ""The Dubliners"". The ""Mail"" was once co-owned by author Sheridan Le Fanu, who also owned or part-owned ""The Warden"", the ""Protestant Guardian"", ""Evening Packet"", and ""Dublin University Magazine"". Bram Stoker worked as an unpaid theatre critic for the paper. In June 1923, the ""Mail"" ran a competition to select an Irish national anthem (though Amhrán na bhFiann (The Soldiers Song) was used informally, it had not been adopted, and the W. T. Cosgrave's Executive Council was coming under pressure to choose an anthem to end confusion"
"by the Dubliners. The opening verse is as follows: ""In Glendalogh there lived an auld saint, renowned for his learning and piety, his manners were curious and quaint, and he looked upon girls with disparity."" The independent film-maker Kevin Smith refers irreverently to his namesake 'Saint Kevin' and the key events of his life in the introduction to , his 2008 live Q & A show. Kevin is referenced several times in Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. The longest episode is found in Pt IV, pgs 604–607 (Faber & Faber, Viking editions) It was one of the earliest drafted ""vignettes"""